Example sentences of "be [coord] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The sandwiches are and one of the mugs of coffee . |
| 2 | You go on as you yourself are and one day you 'll be good . ’ |
| 3 | Well you 've got five threes are and twelve threes are , you 've only got two figures left , so which is to which ? |
| 4 | Outside the courts , however , Pontius Pilate has been but one of many who have claimed , more or less sincerely , not to know what truth is . |
| 5 | ‘ Carlisle ’ might have been but one humble example of nearly 5500 locomotives constructed by the firm , but it was an honest product of a reliable company . |
| 6 | I am certain of my facts & calculations ; so there are but two alternatives : either you have spent , not extravagantly , since you are not extravagant , but sillily & thoughtlessly , which really is far worse . |
| 7 | There are but two families in the world , as my old grandmother used to say , the Haves and the Have-nots . |
| 8 | Growing disenchantment with economic arguments based essentially on the continuous maximisation of consumption , together with disaffection from the vogue for central planning and large scale social and economic units are but two aspects of a complex situation . |
| 9 | Rom Harré , a philosopher and social psychologist , argues there are but two dimensions along which a man acts : the practical dimension which directs his maintenance of life ( this coincides with my use of first-order experience ) and an ‘ expressive ’ dimension , which he sees as the ‘ overriding pre-occupation of human life ’ ( p. 3 ) . |
| 10 | It was reported as working satisfactorily in October 1900 and it must have remained so , for the final payment was made to Messrs. Gwynnes in February 1901.2 ; There are but two further important references in the Committee Minutes before the closure of the lift nine years later . |
| 11 | The Inner Temple and Outer Temple , two of the London Inns of Court , and Temple Meads Station in Bristol are but two examples . |
| 12 | The rather clumsy handling by NIREX of the search for sites to store low- and intermediate-level wastes , together with very recent worries about the import of toxic wastes such as polychlorinated biphenyls ( PCBs ) , are but two examples of such concern in the UK . |
| 13 | It is just that there have been ‘ colossal changes in the transfer mechanisms ’ , he says , and widespread use of blood products , and increased homosexual promiscuity are but two of them . |
| 14 | You and I are but two of them , yet every one counts . |
| 15 | These are but two tragic examples of laxity in a system which has achieved increasingly high standards of safety in worldwide civil aviation . |
| 16 | The customer who walks out without paying in a restaurant and the guest at a hotel who leaves early in the morning by a fire escape are but two examples of the problems hoteliers face . |
| 17 | ‘ Our love was worth its weight in candyfloss ’ ( ‘ Endless Weekend ’ ) and the aphorism of a woman that ‘ her only weapon is her ecstasy ’ ( ‘ 100 Boys ’ ) are but two random examples . |
| 18 | ‘ There are but two , we have few offenders in the general way of things . |
| 19 | The urge to question and praise are but two of many possible examples of commitments which are deeply embedded in the conventional wisdom about what constitutes ‘ good practice ’ in primary education . |
| 20 | Her spontaneous telemessage to the mother whose baby was abducted and her dance with an old-age pensioner at Toynbee Hall are but two examples of this . |
| 21 | Clearly , examinations , the way they are perceived , oriented to and drawn upon as a source of professional justification by teachers , are but one source of influence on the continuing pervasiveness of transmission styles of teaching in the school system . |
| 22 | Questions set by the computer , which then supplies the answer for checking purposes after a randomly set time delay , seem to have a powerful motivating effect and are but one example of the effectiveness of the computer 's simulating the random elements which the pupil experiences in everyday life and work . |
| 23 | The ‘ educational ’ problems of the unemployed are but one dimension of a range of negative factors — psychological , economic , environmental , and so on . |
| 24 | And the unemployed themselves are but one section , albeit an important and prominent section , of the ‘ disadvantaged ’ in our society . |
| 25 | He was not Evil , for even Evil has a certain vitality — Bel-Shamharoth was the flip side of the coin of which Good and Evil are but one side . |
| 26 | They are but one source from which Legionella pneumophila can breed . |
| 27 | For many people birds become an obsession — but for most they are but one part of the whole countryside experience . |
| 28 | You are but two-thirds of my age . |
| 29 | ‘ It has already been hinted at by oor worthy comrade up the back before he passed oot , we are but six months old as a body … ’ |
| 30 | Here are but three mistakes of your career , you would of at least think entering the world would be safe enough , but even that has its dangers . |